Coat hanger



- April 10, 1934- c. A. ISAACSON COAT HANGER Filed Jan. 11, 1935 ,2 01! fs gf f A5 07/7690 Patented Apr. 10, 1934 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 8 Claims.

take up a great amount of room and will not obscure the vision to any great extent when properly hung in an automobile. Furthermore, when the coat is folded and hung on this improved hanger, it will be sort of wrapped together in -such formation that it will not be blown about or opened up and may be hung very close to the top of the car so that the coat will not drag against the seat or other portion of the automo- I' bile body.

'201 The above statement, of course, relates particularly to ordinary sack coats which will be the articles usually hung.

carrying out my invention, I employ a hanger bar, preferably of wood but possibly of other material, which is approximately half the length of an ordinary coat hanger and which is herein designatedas a half-length hanger bar. As an important featurethis half-length hanger bar is provided at or close to one end with a hanger rod that extends over the medial portion of the barand is constructed and arranged to be hung upon a fixed anchor such as a threaded hook applied to the proper portion of the interior wood I of the automobile frame, very close to the top of the same. At the same end to which the hanger rod is applied, said bar is provided with a spaced upwardly projecting finger or clip that is adapted to be hooked through the hanger strap I of the coat; and at the same end, said bar is 46 provided with a projecting lug or finger adapted to engage under the collar scam in case the coat is not equipped with a hanger strap.

A commercial form of the improved coat hang- I er is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views. Referring to the drawing: Fig. 1 is a front elevation with some parts broken away and some parts sectioned, showing the improved coat hanger and a coat hung thereon, the said coat being only partly placed in position;

Fig. 2 is a view corresponding to Fig. 1, but showing the coat completely placed in position on the hanger;

Fig. 3 is a detail partly in section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2, some parts being broken away;

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary view in elevation showing the upper end of the hanger and showing the collar portion of a coat in vertical section, the upper projecting finger being inserted through the loop formed by the coat hanger strap; and

Fig. 5 is a view corresponding to Fig. 4, but showing the collar portion of the coat caught and 55 held by the lower lug or finger.

Of the parts of the hanger above described, in a general way, the numeral 6 indicates the 50- called half-length hanger bar which, as stated, is preferably of wood. This hanger bar has bev-.- el ed ends and is arranged to be hung in an oblique position when supporting a coat. At its upper end, this bar is provided with a hanger rod 7, preferably of heavy wire, one end of which is inserted into a hole bored into the upper .end portion of said bar, and the body of which, in this preferred structure, extends at an angle to the top of the bar 6 and terminates in a transversely elongated eye 8 that is adapted to be detachably engaged with a hanger hook ,9, shown as screwed 30 into the woodwork or frame of the automobile, very close to the top thereof. The intermediate or rather lower portion ofthe hanger rod '7 is detachably engaged with the hook-formed upper end of a threaded rod or screw 10 that is anchored to said bar 6. As shown, this threaded hook 10 extends completely through the bar 6 and is provided on its threaded portion with upper and lower nuts 11 and 12.

By vertical adjustments of the hook rod 10,. the 9 angle of the hook rod 7 in respect to the bar .8 can be varied so as to change, to some extent, the angle at which the bar will be suspended when supporting a coat. For effecting these adjust.- ments, it is important that the member 7 be readily disengageable from the member 10.

The coat hanger strap-engaging finger or clip 13, abovereferred to, is preferably a quite wide flat metal piece screwed or otherwise rigidly secured to the beveled upper end of the bar .6 so that it projects past or beyond a notch 14 cut or formed in the upper end of the bar 6, so as to give clearance for the hanger strap of the coat.

In the drawing, the coat is indicated as an entirety by the character a, and its hanger strap is r95 indicated by the character I). At the lower portion of the upper end of the bar 6, there is a projecting lug or finger 15, which, as above indicated, may be engaged below the collar seams c to I I hold the coat collar in position when the coat is not provided with a hanger strap b or when said strap is broken.

As a further feature, I preferably employ a counter-balancing weight 16 shown as in the form of a cylindrical block telescoped into a bore 1''! formed in the lower end portion of the bar 6. By means of a screw 18 or other suitable means, the weight 16 can be adjustably secured within the bar 6 so as to weight down its free end and cause the bar to hang at the proper angle for supporting the coat.

In the first place, the left-hand shoulder portion of the coat is hung on the lower end of the bar 6, as shown in Fig. 6; then the coat is wrapped around the bar until the central portion of the back is brought to the vertical line of the high end of said bar 6; then the coat is further wrapped around the bar until the right-hand shoulder is brought over the left-hand shoulder and on and over the lower end of said bar 6; and then the right-hand front flap of the coat is further wrapped around until it comes into line with the folded central back portion of the coat or, in other words, into approximately vertical alignment with the high end of said bar 6. When the coat is thus hung on the hanger, it will be folded into four thicknesses, that is, two thicknesses on each side of the hanger, and the straight folded central portion of the back of the coat will be aligned with the high end of said bar 6. Of course, before folding the coat around the bar as above indicated, the finger 13 will be inserted through the loop formed by the coat strap 10, if the coat is provided with such hanger strap, but

- otherwise the lower finger 15 will be inserted under the collar seam 0 before the coat is thus folded. In either case, the collar portion of the coat will be securely anchored to the beveled upper end of the bar 6.

From the foregoing, it must be evident that to permit the coat to be folded around the short or half-length hanger bar as described, the hanger rod or hanging means must be attached thereto at or close to one end thereof, for otherwise the two shoulder portions of the coat could not be brought into overlapping engagement. The hangyond the eye-equipped end of said rod, thereby causing the said bar to assume an oblique coathanging position. The transversely elongated eye 8, at the free end of the hanger rod 7, affords a good grip for holding the hanger in position while the coat is being applied thereto, as well, of course, to afford means for hanging the device on the supporting hook or other suitable anchor.

It will, of course, be understood that the parts of the hanger above described may be made of wood, metal, or other suitable material, and that various alterations of the details and arrangement of parts may be made within the scope of the invention herein disclosed and claimed.

What I claim is:

1. A coat hanger comprising a half-length bar provided at one end with a hanger rod that projects above the same at an angle thereto and terminates above the medial portion thereof, said bar at that end to which said hanger rod is applied having an offset projecting finger engageable with a portion of the coat collar to hold the same in position.

2. A coat hanger comprising a half-length bar provided at one end with a hanger rod that projects above the same at an angle thereto and terminates above the medial portion thereof, said bar at that end to which said hanger rod is applied having an upwardly projecting oifset finger for engagement with the hanger strap of the coat.

3. A coat hanger comprising a half-length bar provided at one end with a hanger rod that projects above the same at an angle thereto and terminates above the medial portion thereof, and a rod adjustably secured to said bar and engaged with the lower medial portion of said hanger rod.

l. The structure defined in claim 3 in which said latter noted rod is provided with an upper end with which said hanger rod is detachably engageable.

5. The structure defined in claim 2 in which said bar below the first noted finger, is provided with a projecting finger or lug that is adapted to engage the collar of the coat to hold the same in position.

6. The structure defined in claim 1 in which the upper end of said bar is beveled and said strap-engaging finger is at an oblique angle to the longitudinal axis of said bar.

7. A coat hanger comprising a single half length bar provided near one end with a hanger rod that is secured thereto and projects above the same at an angle thereto and terminates at a fixed point above the medial portion of said bar, said bar at that end to which said hanger rod is applied having a coat-engaging projection that extends in a direction opposite to the direction in which said hanger rod is extended from its point of attachment, said projection being engageable with a portion of a coat collar to hold the same in position.

8. A coat hanger comprising a half-length bar provided near one end with a hanger rod that is rigidly secured thereto and projects above the same at an angle thereto and terminates above the medial portion thereof, and a rod-like member secured to said bar and connected to the intermediate portion of said hanger rod and serving to reinforce the latter and affording a stop limiting the movement of the coat on the upper portion of said bar.

his CARL A. X ISAACSON. mark Witness:

E. J. IsAAcsoN. 

